[Judas]

I'm torn between two responses. One, is simple - more money. The second, is a method that sounds good on paper but doesn't really work, in that the way to combat the problem is by letting the 'poor help themselves'.

I think to begin with the problem of unfit housing needs to be resolved; if people have conditions that are up to general living standards I believe they will generally gain more moral to take themselves out of poverty.

Also I think governments need to direct their offices and call centers into these impovershed areas to general stop the exclusion from the labour market that exists. I think SO much more funding needs to be put into community centres in these areas, and if people pay money use it as somewhere for more than just activities but somewhere to eat, which, in my view would strengthen any community, and thus allow any kind of 'regeneration' programme to be so much more succesfull. I think that is kind of where 'sure start' failed.

SOMEONE GIVE VIEWS PLEASE SURELY GAGA IS NOT MORE IMPORTANT?
/angered and bored.